Roundtable Meeting on Programme for the 2010
Round of Censuses of Agriculture
Bangkok, Thailand
28 November-2 December, 2005
VILLAGE LEVEL SOCIO-ECONOMIC
DATA COLLECTION AND ITS USE
OF CAMBODIA
By Seng Soeurn
National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia
Background
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Between 1963 and 1993, absent of Household
Surveys and Censuses.
In 1993 National Institute of Statistics of the
Ministry of Planning was assigned as a central
government agency.
The national Institute of Statistics has
conducted five Cambodia Socio-Economic
Surveys: 1993-94, 1996, 1997, 1999 and newly
completed its final round of 2003-04.
Background (cont.)
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The 1998 Population Census has implemented
and provided a much more complete
demographic picture and has introduced a new
era of sampling.
Many other surveys also have been conducted:
Survey of Industrial Establishments 1993 and
2000, Labor Force Survey 2000 and 2001,
Demographic Survey 1996, Demographic and
Health Survey 2000 and 2004, etc.
Since 2001 a Compilation of Commune Database
has been adopted and implemented.
Agriculture-based surveys: Cost Production
Survey and Crops Cutting Survey of Paddy and
Maize.
Experience of Various Household
Socio-Economic Survey
Survey round and sample size are vary
according to each survey
 Inconsistency between surveys,
seasonality problems, different rounds
used, sampling issues, etc.
 Budget implement is mainly based on
aid funding and different donors
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Experience of Various Household
Socio-Economic Survey
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A recently survey round 2003/04, National
Institute of Statistics and other stakeholders
decided to establish new baseline, using the
diary method with 15,000hhs
Long training (3 weeks plus briefing sessions)
of enumerators and supervisors
Systematically supervision of fieldwork by core
staff
Close to 100 percent respondent rate
Data collection
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About 90-100 interviewers and supervisors
were involved, comprising of central level
through local level
The interviewers canvassed from the
respondents (usually the head of the
household) and entered in the questionnaire
Questionnaire design were comprehensive
discussed various stakeholders
Uses of questionnaire
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There are 4 types questionnaire:
- Listing sheet
- Village questionnaire
- Household questionnaire (income
and expenditures)
- Diary sheet
- Time use
Listing of households
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Building type (where the housing occupied)
Name of household head
Address of household
Number of household members
Principal economic activity of the household
Disable members of the household
Household questionnaire
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Demographic characteristics
Education and literacy
Economic characteristics
Health
Housing particular
Household consumption expenditures and main
source of income
Household assets and liabilities
Fertility and child care
Household questionnaire
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Durables goods
Construction activities
Nutrition
Fertility and child care
Mortality
HIV/AIDS
Victimization
Time sue survey
Village questionnaire
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Demographic information
Economic infrastructures
Rainfall and natural disasters
Education
Health
Retail prices
Employment wages
Access to common property resources during the last 5
years
Sales prices of agriculture land in the village
Recruitment of children for work outside the village
Main topics for Agriculture collected in
the household survey
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Landownership
Production of crops
Hypothetical questions on rental and sales market
Inputs and outputs of livestock raising activities
Input and outputs from fish cultivation and
fishing/trapping of aquatic products
Inputs and outputs from forestry and hunting
Inventory of household non-agricultural economic
activities
Uses of data
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to compile social and economic indicators (Statistical
year book)
Used for national accounts and consumer price index
To prepare for national strategic development plan
(NSDP)
To prepare commune policy and development plans
To monitor poverty trend (poverty line, poverty statistics)
and Cambodia Millennium Development Goals
To monitor sectoral development plan
For users (researchers, policy-makers)
For local and international non-governmental
Thank you for your
attention